Thanks guys! The Mk 24 has my full attention now that the Dora is finished. Here is some work that I've done in the past few days.
I've added the brake lines to the landing gear covers.
Here are the landing gear components after paint and a pastel wash. I've added rivets to the inner gear doors. The oleo scissors and the tail wheel door inserts are photoetch. The photos really wash out the details!
Can't forget the little tail wheel...
The radiator boxes have been added to the bottom of the wings. There are some small gaps that will need to be filled using White Milliput.
The next few steps detail the painting of the spinner. The prop and spinner, being prominently featured at the front of an aircraft, gets a lot of scrutiny so I like to spend some extra time here. I've preshaded the front portion of the spinner first.
The front of the spinner will be blue but I like to establish a white base for primary colors. The white coat is left a little on the light side to hopefully allow the preshading to be visible under the blue.
The blue is applied to the front of the spinner without a mask.
It's much easier to mask a conical spinner from the top so the blue is masked off in preparation for the white base. Some preshading is applied.
After the base coats have been finished, the spinner is sealed with a gloss coat to accept a pastel wash. I've added some rivets as well as a small circular depression at the tip of the spinner which the pastel wash will highlight.
After the wash, the spinner is given a flat coat. The camera doesn't do a great job at capturing some of the subtle effects of preshading but it's there!